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Pack Rat Poems - Poems about Pack Rat


Premium MemberPack Rat

A pack rat kept more than he should;
He saved every wood scrap he could.
For more room to stack.
he built him a rack;
In doing so, used up his wood!


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Silly, but today's project
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Categories: pack rat, silly,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMy Pack Rat Eye Tis

accumulation
choking the room bitterly
an embarrassment
carefully tromping through it
side-stepping junk gingerly

My pack rack eye-tis
surrounds me untidily
disturbing eyesore
jumping over largest pile
not inviting company
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Categories: pack rat, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Tanka



Premium MemberPack Rat People

I am in my beautifully decorated office where I have dragged overflow 
A baby gift that should have been given over to the new mama long ago,
Reams of paper that are not going to walk themselves to the printer.
Notebooks and pencils that could be put on a shelf for the winter.
It is weird that my
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Categories: pack rat, woman,
Form: Couplet

Pack Rat Vacation Haiku

a planned one day trip
has the feeling of five days
pack rat vacation
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Categories: pack rat, blessing, fun, happy, inspirational,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberPack Rat

I am sneaking
Down a side street
I see trashcans
In a backyard
I walk over
To look in them
Refuse waiting
To be picked up
I am happy
To collect it
Because I am
Just a pack rat
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Categories: pack rat, animals,
Form: Free verse



Memory Pack Rat

This photograph of me and you
gauze red shirt and winter sunned
on our way to New York City
to traipse the town and eat Chinese
is still on my refrigerator door.
Twelve years passed, maybe more.
Somehow our smiles with open mouths
to catch the air of frozen thoughts
in camera eyes and shutters and clicks
self-set on the roof of your car,
still
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Categories: pack rat, friendship, happiness, nostalgia, people,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things